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New Signings > European Champions League CSR Team

Seems like my fun and speedily thrown together post during the UEFA Champions League Final has caused a bit of a stir, and rightly too. A few eagle eyed CSR friends noticed the deliberate mistake and passed the test. Honest.

Yes, the team lacked a little gender diversity and was all men! My original selection criteria was very loose and based on CSR reputation and any football connections (and my awareness of). Like any good team Captain I’ve had an imaginary word with the Manager and suggested a couple of new signings both on and off the pitch. I only hope we can afford the fees and will be actively looking for a new sponsorship deal with Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey ice cream (any ideas who’s been scouted?) to help with the fees.

I’ve included the new signings below, assuming the money is available. I’ve also had imaginary calls to those who’ve been dropped to make way for the new players, with one dummy spat out (now playing in the reserves) and one player off to be a TV pundit.

I’m also starting to scout the USA for the next team, after all we’re going to need somebody to play against! Let me know who I should pick?

I couldn’t resist picking a European Champions League CSR squad today following inspiration from @aandreup’s Tweet and of course tonight’s big game.

It made me smile and sent me back a few years to my time in football. So, sat in front of Barcelona V Man Utd in tonight’s European Champions League final I decided to pick my own CSR European team.

With a few years behind me as manager of an England squad I’d like to think I could put a decent team together. Whilst I’ve tried my very best to focus on European based professionals I’ve included one or two quality overseas players befitting of a European final – they may of had distant European ancestry / passports somewhere to qualify 😉

The queen of CSR reporting is an obvious improvement to our defensive line-up. Elaine’s scrutiny doesn’t allow anything to get past her. Her hometown of Manchester should have been an obvious reason too!

The ‘Duracell Bunny of CSR’ according to Jim Craig (above) and a similar energy on the pitch. Give somebody a coaching badge and they starting organising everything on the pitch – that’s me 😉 My distribution has also improved since joining @3BLMedia

A great leader and all-rounder able to change the team’s performance when playing.

Champions League update:

A brilliant win for an at times sublime Barcelona. A genuine shame the trophy isn’t coming to England but the difference in class on the night was apparent for all to see, even Sir Alex Ferguson had nobody to blame.

Hilarious. David in fine form after the Champions Legaue Final — I’m assuming that his preferred team won.

I wonder how we’d actually get on in a real match. We definitely could play the Americans and they could certainly field a team. But what about Asia, Africa … who are the players there? I don’t know either and that in itself says a lot………….

well David, Confucius says “He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” Obviously you are neither lost nor in danger, as you smartly listened and learned from your stakeholders, and adapted your strategy accordingly. Of course, having us gals on the team will catapult the CSR Team to the top of the league in no time, – the power of diversity always triumphs. Anyway, glad to be part of such an illustrious team … when do we play Man U?
elaine